On 11/08/13 at 09:01pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/08/2013 07:57 PM, Dave Young wrote: > > > > Hmm, if CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS is not set, then kexec-tools should > > fail getting efi_info, so I will fix kexec-tools patch about this. > > > > Also CONFIG_EFI_RUNTIME_MAP should select CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS. > > In future will try to move the boot params data out of debugfs. > > > > Honestly, if we need debugfs to get actual functionality, it shouldn't > be in sploit^Wdebugfs... > Huang Ying <ying.huang at intel.com> created the debugfs file for boot_params. His first version patch tried sysfs, but sysfs is not designed for such binary blobs so finally it go to debugfs. Any idea for this is welcome, till now I have no better idea for such kind of data. We should have another *fs instead of using debugfs. Thanks Dave
